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Litigation Cases

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Case Name: Brown v. District of Columbia

Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Docket: 10-2250

Read the Court’s decision and press release here. 

Issued: December 31, 2024

Case Issues:  The Court issued a resounding judgment for the plaintiff class, finding that the District of Columbia has violated the rights of D.C. residents with disabilities under the integration mandate of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The Court ordered the District to take several steps, including developing a working system of transition assistance, to ensure that it was serving people with disabilities in the most integrated settings.

 

Case Name: Mark H. Goldstein v. RTX Corporation (f/k/a Raytheon Technologies Corporation)

Court:  United States District Court for the District of Delaware

Case No.: 1:24-cv-01169

Read AARP's Complaint (PDF) 

Filed: November 20, 2024

Case Issues:  Does Raytheon’s practice of reserving positions exclusively for recent graduates discriminate against older workers in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Massachusetts Fair Employment Practices Act, and the Virginia Human Rights Act?

 

Case Name: Fitzmorris, et al. v. Weaver

Court:  US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Case No.: 23-8047

Read  Complaint and Order (PDF) 

Filed: February 21, 2024

Case Issues:  The Court has denied the defendants’ appeal of the district court’s grant of class certification. The denial of the appeal allows our litigation to proceed to benefit low-income older people and people with disabilities who face discrimination based on their disability and age.

 

Case Name: John Doe #1, et al. v. Alden Group Ltd, et al.

Court:  Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, Chancery Division

Docket: Case No. 22-CH-9574

Read AARP's Complaint (PDF) 

Filed: January 30, 2024

Case Issues:  Does the Alden Group and its facilities neglect residents and put them at risk of harm by failing to provide care that meets the residents’ needs through systematic and intentional understaffing in violation of the Illinois Nursing Home Care Act and the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act?

 

Case Name: Real Women in Trucking v. Meta Platforms, Inc.,

Forum:  U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

EEOC Charge No.: 570-2023-00655

Read AARP's Press Release (PDF) Notice of Appearance (PDF) 

Noticed: December 19, 2023

Case Issues:  Whether Meta’s ad-delivery algorithm violates the Age Discrimination in Employment Act and Title VII by relying on age and gender in the delivery of its job advertisements, thereby excluding older adults from many job advertisements and perpetuating gender stereotypes about which gender will be interested in a particular job (i.e., only older men receive mechanic and truck driving ads and only older women receive administrative assistant and caregiving ads).  

 

Case Name: Margaret Bobb v. Finepoints Private Duty Healthcare, LLC, et al

Court:  United States District Court for the District Of Maryland

Docket: Case No. 1:23-cv-03129

AARP Foundation 2024 Supreme Court Preview

The Supreme Court often hears cases affecting the lives of people over 50. Read our review of key cases coming before the Court this year and likely to come in the future.

  

 

Read AARP's Complaint (PDF) 

Filed: November 16, 2023

Case Issues:  Did FinePoints Private Duty Healthcare, LLC, unlawfully fail to pay their home care workers all wages they were entitled to, in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”)? 

 

Case Name: Dancy-Wilkins et al., v. Compu-Link Corporation et al.

Court:  US District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Docket: Case No. 2:22-cv-06208-JS-LGD

Read AARP's Complaint (PDF) 

Filed: October 14, 2022

Case Issues:  Are reverse mortgage borrowers nationwide who were charged excess attorney’s fees, prohibited appraisal and inspection costs, and inflated interest and mortgage insurance premiums related to foreclosures filed without required advance notices entitled to have their mortgage balances corrected and to have the unfair practices stopped?

 

Case Name: Jones v. Austin Industries

Court: EEOC  Charge No.: 2022-440-07338

Filed: 7/18/2022

Read: Article (AARP), Article (Reuters)

Case Issue: Does Austin’s wellness program, which imposing an insurance surcharge of up to $2400 per year for nonparticipation, violate Americans with Disabilities Act and Genetic Information Non-discrimination Act requirements that such programs be voluntary?  

 

Case Name: Nancy Reuschel, as Executrix of the Estate of Louis Mcgraw, deceased; Loretta Holcomb, as Executrix of the Estate of Charlotte Rogers, deceased; and on behalf of all others similarly situated, v. Chancellor Senior Management, LTD.

Court:  US District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Case No.: 5:22-cv-00279

Read Complaint (PDF) 

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Filed: July 7, 2022

Case Issues:  Does Chancellor Senior Management Ltd.’s practices of marketing certain levels of services to older persons, assessing the care needs of these persons upon their admission to its facilities and charging fees based on those needs, but then failing to provide sufficient staff to meet those needs, constitute unfair and/or deceptive acts under West Virginia’s consumer protection statute?

 

Case Name: Single v. Catholic Pioneer Church Homes

Court: Superior Ct., State of Cal., County of Sacramento    Docket: 2017-00220058

Order: 04/19/2022

Read Decision Ruling (4/15/2021), Press Release, Original Press Release, Complaint (PDF), MSA Order (4/19/2022) 

"Her Son Says She Was a Victim of Nursing Home Dumping," by Jessica Ravitz, the case story about Gloria Single. Read

Case Issue: Can a nursing facility refuse to readmit a resident who has exercised her administrative due process rights and won the right to readmission?

 

Case Name: Alexander v. Harris

Court: U.S. Dist. Ct. MarylandDocket:8:22-cv-00707

Read: Amended Complaint (PDF), Press ReleaseListen/Read, to SVP William A. Rivera  Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Article)

Filed: 03/22/2022

Case Issue: Can 5000 current and former pastors, clergy, and other employees of the African Methodist Episcopal Church recover $90 million lost from their retirement accounts due to gross financial mishandling?

 

Case Name: Hartshorne v. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, New York

AARP Foundation Supreme Court Preview

The Supreme Court often hears cases affecting the lives of people over 50. Read our review of key cases coming before the Court this year and likely to come in the future.

  

 

Court:  State of New York Supreme Court Schenectady County

Case No.: 2019-1989

Read Complaint (PDF)   MSJ Decision (PDF)

Filed: September 10, 2019

Case Issues:  Did the Defendants, including the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, violate New York State laws concerning contracts, promises, and fiduciaries when they either stopped paying or drastically reduced the pensions of former employees of St. Clare’s Hospital?

 

Case Name: Live Well Financial v. Shakespeare

Court: USDC for the Eastern District Of New York

Case No.: 2:18-cv-7299

Read Complaint (PDF) 

Filed: December 21, 2018

Case Issues: Did Live Well Financial and Celink violate reverse mortgage contracts and applicable law by prepaying property taxes of older homeowners without legal authority and without notice and then wrongfully demand repayment out of personal funds?

 

 

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